- The fourth season focuses on the reign of Louis XIV from 1643 to 1701. The series traces his childhood, the influence of Mazarin and his mother during his early years as well
- During the Regency period, the insane King George III's stark raving mad son, George, is the Prince Regent of Wales. Vulgar and staggeringly slow-and-dim-witted, George exhausts the country's money and would surely be dead by know were it not for his dry, angry, bitter, arrogant and cynical butler, Edmund Blackadder, E…